#companydeath — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #companydeath, aggregated by home.social.
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Fast Company: Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies. “According to a report by Forbes, defunct companies are selling their digital footprints to AI companies as training data—and making real money from it. Shanna Johnson, the CEO of now-defunct software company Cielo24, told the publication that she was able to sell every Slack message, internal email, and […]
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Fast Company: Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies. “According to a report by Forbes, defunct companies are selling their digital footprints to AI companies as training data—and making real money from it. Shanna Johnson, the CEO of now-defunct software company Cielo24, told the publication that she was able to sell every Slack message, internal email, and […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/18/fast-company-shuttered-startups-are-selling-old-slack-chats-and-emails-to-ai-companies/ -
Fast Company: Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies. “According to a report by Forbes, defunct companies are selling their digital footprints to AI companies as training data—and making real money from it. Shanna Johnson, the CEO of now-defunct software company Cielo24, told the publication that she was able to sell every Slack message, internal email, and […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/18/fast-company-shuttered-startups-are-selling-old-slack-chats-and-emails-to-ai-companies/ -
Fast Company: Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies. “According to a report by Forbes, defunct companies are selling their digital footprints to AI companies as training data—and making real money from it. Shanna Johnson, the CEO of now-defunct software company Cielo24, told the publication that she was able to sell every Slack message, internal email, and […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/18/fast-company-shuttered-startups-are-selling-old-slack-chats-and-emails-to-ai-companies/ -
Fast Company: Shuttered startups are selling old Slack chats and emails to AI companies. “According to a report by Forbes, defunct companies are selling their digital footprints to AI companies as training data—and making real money from it. Shanna Johnson, the CEO of now-defunct software company Cielo24, told the publication that she was able to sell every Slack message, internal email, and […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/18/fast-company-shuttered-startups-are-selling-old-slack-chats-and-emails-to-ai-companies/ -
New York Times: How This A.I. Company Collapsed Amid Silicon Valley’s Biggest Boom. This link goes to a gift article. “Two years ago, Fast Company magazine ranked Builder the third most innovative company in A.I., right behind OpenAI and Google’s DeepMind. Last winter, it all went south. Builder’s board discovered that sales had been significantly overstated. The chief executive resigned. […]
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Engadget: Alphabet’s Verily closes its medical device division and lays off staff. “Alphabet’s Verily was one of the company’s star “moonshot” businesses, with its research delving into areas ranging from connected diabetes therapies to robot surgery. Now, Verily has shuttered its medical device division and laid off staff, the company announced in a memo seen by Business Insider. The number of […]